Saturday, February 7, 2009

SoReal Cru: February 14 in Fullerton Ca, and February 16 in San Diego. Click on the poster for details

JabbaWockeeZ will be joining New Kids on the Block for at least part of the NKOB tour. They are confirmed for the Canadian tour dates in April. Here's the details. If more dates are added, we'll update our information.

Our intrepid reporter Salima Koroma talked with Strikers All-Stars before this week's America's Best Dance Crew taping. She asked questions from BloggingBestDanceCrew.com readers on topics including Strikers' role in being a positive image of African American college students, their favorite dance movies, their daily schedule, which crews they'd like to pair up with, and some unusual talents. Also, don't miss Quest's D-trix helping Salima with her intro! Thanks Salima!

The Daily News lurvs Quest, analyzing Hok's move: "it looks like he's upside down, but he was really right-side up but had a sweatshirt on his legs and no shoes, and I think I saw a wire and there were mattress springs in his shoes and Tinkerbell was braiding his hair."

Zap2It was impressed by everybody this week, but doesn't think "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" is whack enough

GUnitVer1 thinks that only Quest and Beat Freaks made the grade this week

Thanks to all of you who submitted entries on which crews will be in the top 4 at the end of this season, in the order of their elimination. If you want to change your vote, here's your weekly chance.

At the end of the season, I'll post who won, and who else got the right combination (and in which week). So, even if your choice has already been taken, you can enter a new one now and get some bragging rights. And, there are still some combinations that haven't been picked, if you want to place a bet on some dark horses.

Fanny Pak, Kaba Modern, Super Cr3w, on February 20, Anaheim, CA: Feel the Beat, a Benefit for the Childrens Hospital of Orange County. This poster has the details

Kaba Modern, February 27, Anaheim, CA: appearance at MoneyXLive, "an MTV style award show event promoting financial education that is designed to teach today's youth how to avoid common financial mistakes"

Friday, February 6, 2009

In my mailbox, I received this message from Jeff Viray of Team Millennia, to be shared with TM fans. His main point - visit their Myspace page or TMDance.org to keep up the conversation and let them know if you want them to tour near you! The message:

"Whad up ya'll!!!! Now I know lots of you are bummed that we got the boot (for the send time) so early... but hey! No need to dwell on it, it is what it is. Now it's time to move on and grow for this! BC u know us, MTV called us the "come back kids," so lets run with it. We know in our hearts, we're never gonna stop what we love to do and thats dance and perform (teach too!) So lets hear it from you guys! I wanna know what city we should hit up first! I wanna take a poll... myspace msg, comment on my blog, put it on the TM website guesbook... make yourselves heard, and we'll do the rest to make it happen! GO TM!!!!"Jeff of TM7

*** ps. keep checking out tmdance.org for updates! we have so much planned for the future!

Last night's America's Best Dance Crew triggered a severe flashback reaction for Jim Cantiello (and apparently for JC Chasez). Join him as he reminisces about the ABDC performances and does a public service announcement. Note: please don't leave Jim 'Home Alone' again!

I spoke by phone with Ringmasters on Wednesday, after they were eliminated on America's Best Dance Crew 3, Week 4. Listen in as we talk about their name change, how their style has changed because of ABDC, what they accomplished by going on the show, a typical day preparing for the show, and their favorite crews.

Time to enter your votes for The Elimination Challenge for next week: Which crews will be in the bottom 2? Who will be eliminated? Enter each week and the person with the highest cumulative score for Season 3 will win an ABDC crew shirt of their choice and size (up to $35 retail). In case of a tie, we will have a tie-breaker question, to be posted the last week of the contest.

Last week, only Eddie and Alexis got all 3 points . The current contest leader is Eddie with 6 cumulative points over the first 3 rounds. But the season goes on for 5 more weeks, so it's anybody's game. Enter NOW -- here are the rules and details. Entries for this week will be accepted until midnight, Monday February 9.

Ringmasters brought a new dance style to America's Best Dance Crew and won over many early doubters. While their contortions made have made some people uneasy (or even queasy), their performances were arresting and original. Even in the auditions, their humor and personality shone through.

Tune in later for my podcast with Ringmasters, taped after the elimination.This post is only for positive comments about Ringmasters. If you want to negative comments about them or about other aspects of ABDC, please leave them in our Party Room.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The voting is now open for Week 4: The Whack Challenge, from now until 6am Eastern time. If you want to protect your favorite crew, act now!Click here to vote. Performance videos will probably be online by 11pm West Coast time, to aid in your choices.

The party room for America's Best Dance Crew Week 4 is now open! Share your predictions, impressions, frustrations, hates and loves. TBone will moderate this reader forum, while NancyT live-blogs and does play-by-play in a separate BABDC post (just below this post). So, if you want to share your comments with other viewers, leave them here.

At 10pm, I'll be watching America's Best Dance Crew and live blogging the facts as I see them. So tune in at 10 and feel free to read along!

Even though this software gives readers the option of sending me comments, please post most of them on the separate Party Room post instead (unless you REALLY want me to see your message real-time). Reason: with this software, reader comments must be manually inserted by me and I'll be busy enough between the TV and the keyboard.ABDC Whack Challenge - Live Play-by-Play

Field Reporter SalimaKoroma was back on the Warner Brothers lot this week, watching the ABDC taping and talking backstage to crews and ABDC regulars. Here's her non-spoiler report:

"I had so much fun Tuesday night at Week 4's taping of America's Best Dance Crew! Having interviewed the guys of Quest last week, I was excited to see them again since they were so friendly last time. In fact, as friendly as all the crews are, they're even more friendly with each other. I was happy to see Ringmasters hanging with Beat Freaks, and Dynamic Edition chillin' with Quest. It was a reminder that, although these crews are all competing, they're also good friends.

I spoke with Striker All-Stars for the first time, and asked them a few of the questions that all your readers wanted answers to. That video will be up on BloggingBestDanceCrew.com soon.

Click here to read her 'teaser' report on the taping, plus a photo of Shane Sparks in his JabbaWockeeZ shirt!

Thank God it's Thursday! Watch America's Best Dance Crew and the Whack Challenge with us tonight! The Party Room opens at 9:30 ET and stays open as long as you want, so that everyone can comment on anything remotely related to ABDC. Did you like the challenge? Did they miss their opportunity to choose really bad music --what would you have chosen? Do you see conspiracies surrounding the show? Who should go home next?

At 10pm ET, I'll be doing live play-by-play while watching the show, so feel free to tune in and make fun of me or get a sneak preview of the action (for those of you from the West Coast/Canada/India or other ABDC-deprived zones).

Tomorrow morning, please vote in our polls on the best and worst performances. Plus, Week 3 of our Elimination Contest and Top 4 Contest will be on-line. Join us!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Here are the results from our reader polls on the best and worst performances in America's Best Dance Crew Britney challenge. Come back early Friday to vote on the best and worst in this week's Whack Challenge.

Quest was the most popular, for the third straight week, with over 50% of the votes!

Leave it on the Floor will feature news from the fashion and dance culture scene. In Episode 1, Nothing but Strings (a hip hop violin duo!) play with JabbaWockeeZ. Here's the link. (I'm not embedding these videos on my site because they launch automatically, which gets annoying really fast!)

There is a Swedish TV show called Made in Sweden. From what I can tell, it has something to do with launching singing careers, but don't quote me on that. On a recent episode, JC Chasez (America's Best Dance Crew judge extraordinaire) stops by to reflect on his career and give some advice. His words of wisdom (in English with Swedish subtitles): pick your battles, remain true to what you believe in, surround yourself with successful people.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Field reporters Beverly, Angela, and Ashley interviewed Arnel Calvario backstage at VIBE XIV. He spoke about his behind-the-scenes involvement in America's Best Dance Crew, and his role in founding Kaba Modern. In this articulate interview, he describes what life is like for crews on the show, which crews he's rooting for this season, how shows like ABDC create both platforms and difficulties for the dance world, and advice for dancers. And he ends with his signature popping move!

In the next few days, we'll also post our backstage interviews with Kaba Modern members Mike Song, Lawrence Kao, and Tony Tran.

Buddy TV presents Zap2It's interview with Shane. He talks about the current crews, how Beat Freaks could "influence the world", and whether there will be guest stars on Season 3 of America's Best Dance Crew

Strife TV has an amazing interview with Shane where he talks about how America's Best Dance Crew and movies like You Got Served are putting b-boying and other dancing on the map. He also talks about why he loves crews like Ringmasters and the future of b-boying.